Ruban Kopli As a candidate for the position of Engineering Coordinator, I believe I would be the best qualified because of two main reasons. First, I have a large amount of building experience gained from my four years in the robotics club as a head designer and builder, robotics class, and applied engineering class among other things. Our robotics team this year qualified a robot for the world championship for the second year in a row, which shows not only that all this building experience is backed also by high ability, but also that I am able to work well with a team. In addition to that experience, I have already completed the CTY physics course (essentially a years’ curriculum in a month), by the next school year will have completed the school honors physics course, and also will be taking AP physics. Although this may not seem completely relevant, the application of physics to building is actually a fairly direct link. In robotics, for instance, I have been able to directly apply knowledge gained in the honors physics class to complete calculations to better design the robot instead of needing to actually build a model to test. Second, as the incumbent, I have experience with the last year’s science olympiad structure, and thus I posses insights as to how to change it to work better for this coming year that others do not. For instance, this year I have learned that building during the regular meetings did not work due to the lack of a workspace and proper tools, so for next year I have ideas to fix this, such as using regular meetings for designing the solutions for the challenges, and doing all the serious building over the weekend. For all these reasons, I urge your ballot.
As a candidate for the position of Engineering Coordinator, I believe I would be the best qualified because of two main reasons. First, I have a large amount of building experience gained from my four years in the robotics club as a head designer and builder, robotics class, and applied engineering class among other things. Our robotics team this year qualified a robot for the world championship for the second year in a row, which shows not only that all this building experience is backed also by high ability, but also that I am able to work well with a team. In addition to that experience, I have already completed the CTY physics course (essentially a years’ curriculum in a month), by the next school year will have completed the school honors physics course, and also will be taking AP physics. Although this may not seem completely relevant, the application of physics to building is actually a fairly direct link. In robotics, for instance, I have been able to directly apply knowledge gained in the honors physics class to complete calculations to better design the robot instead of needing to actually build a model to test. Second, as the incumbent, I have experience with the last year’s science olympiad structure, and thus I posses insights as to how to change it to work better for this coming year that others do not. For instance, this year I have learned that building during the regular meetings did not work due to the lack of a workspace and proper tools, so for next year I have ideas to fix this, such as using regular meetings for designing the solutions for the challenges, and doing all the serious building over the weekend. For all these reasons, I urge your ballot.